I started programming in Objective-C and Cocoa in April. To familiarize myself with the language and framework, I wrote an RSS reader, and I had planned to throw that code away as soon as I felt comfortable building a real application. Of course, then I thought it would be fun to release that reader to [...]
I went to the gas station yesterday to fill up my car. It was the normal routine until I squeezed the pump handle and nothing happened. I tried it again, took the pump out, put it back in, squeezed. Nothing. After half a minute of this, the machine beeped and asked if I’d like my [...]
One common need is to make dates within the last week more readable, like using “Today” instead of “September 13″. Apple Mail and NetNewsWire both do this. When using Cocoa Bindings, the easiest path to this is through an NSValueTransformer. I initially tried to use NSCalendarDate (following this example), but apparently Apple might deprecate that [...]
iTunes has small horizontal arrow icons integrated into many interfaces, in Music, Podcasts, and the Store. They’re in other applications too, such as Instruments and Delicious Library. The HIG briefly touches on these arrows but doesn’t name them, so I call them link arrows, if only to distinguish them from arrow keys. I did a [...]
Source lists have become a standard user interface element at this point in the Mac environment. Apple’s Mail, iCal, iTunes, and iPhoto use them, along with many third-party applications including Delicious Monster’s Delicious Library and Panic’s Coda. They’re easily created using an NSTableView or NSOutlineView and changing the selectionHighlightStyle (highlight in Interface Builder) to “Source [...]
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I'm Brian Dunagan. I write Mac user interfaces at Roxio Retrospect. Before that, I wrote Windows COM/MFC and Ruby on Rails at WildPackets. I graduated from MIT back in 2004. All the code posted is under MIT license. Feel free to use it anywhere; hope you find it useful. :)
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